F-35 ENGINE BATTLE BREAKS OUT ON GOP SPENDING BILL

The Obama administration's campaign against a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon's next-generation fighter plane faces a critical vote in the GOP-controlled House, its fate to be decided by supplementary than 90 freshmen lawmakers who formerly haven't had to choose sides between two major defense companies.

 

The expected vote Wednesday comes as the House enters its second day of debate on a $1.2 trillion spending bill that would wrap up the unfinished commerce lawmakers inherited after last year's give way of the budget procedure. That includes $1.03 trillion for agency operating budgets that need yearly approval by Congress and $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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